Tag: bobby z
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1999
What set Prince apart from his early-’80s peers was his insistence on greeting Judgment Day, not with solemn gravity or mordant gallows humor, but with a seemingly irony-free display of millenarian ecstasy.
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D.M.S.R.
“D.M.S.R.” was Prince’s calling card–a four-word (four-letter!) summation of everything he and his music were about.
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Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Against the mechanized backdrop of “Let’s Pretend We’re Married,” Prince delivers a vocal performance that is pure flesh, utilizing every gasp, pant, slurp, and scream in his ever-expanding repertoire.
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The Second Coming
“The Second Coming” attempts to tie together the thematic threads of the Controversy album, turning the accompanying live show into a conceptual experience.